“I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.”

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.

Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.

We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.

Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.

I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.

I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.

When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.

All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.

If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.

Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

Awards don’t really mean much.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.

I just want to be known as the greatest everis that too much to ask?

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.

How is it possible to exist with so much pain?

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.

It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.